Buffy ,'Touched'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Harlan Coben whoops got him confused with Lee Child. Who I think of as very similar: Books I read on airplanes. :) Myron Bolitar, ex-sports star, now agent who ends up all up in mysteries and gets shot and stuff.
I hadn't heard of him until I was in a used bookstore in Vietnam and there were tons of his books. But when I came back to the states he seemed to be everywhere.
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
Well, sure, but Harlan Coben and Debbie Macomber have tons of books each--I'm confused by whether his point is "award winning authors in their genre" (...I don't actually think HC or DM are very GOOD) or just "popular authors in their genre"?
Mary Gaitskill's written novels, too.
meara, Lee Child writes the Jack Reacher series, which I only know because S. loves them.
Wind-Up Girl was fantastic.
I'm confused by whether his point is "award winning authors in their genre" (...I don't actually think HC or DM are very GOOD) or just "popular authors in their genre"
That's what I was wondering, because he's only written two novels so far, and one of them just came out last year. The awards are great, but they don't make him quite a household name at this point.
There are people who know those names, and other people who don't know those names, is his point, I think. I didn't actually get very far into the article before I lost interest, though.
The only one I hadn't heard of his Mary Gaitskill, and googling indicates it's the kind of thing I never read.
I imagine one reason Simenon is so high on that list (and he is huge in Europe) is that he was extraordinarily prolific. He wrote over 200 novels, many of them based around his dectective Maigret character. His novels are often turned into TV films, sort of like all the BBC and Agatha Christies telefilms.
Monsieur Hire with Sandrine Bonnaire is probably the best known feature film adapted from his work (and it's a remake of Panique, which is from the 40s).
Oddly enough, I was looking up Jules Verne novels this weekend and came across a list of the most translated authors, where I had never heard of #5, a children's author (a few of her series were familiar but the name meant nothing).
Disney Productions
Agatha Christie
Jules Verne
William Shakespeare
Enid Blyton
Vladimir Lenin
Barbara Cartland
Danielle Steel
Hans Christian Andersen
Stephen King
Huh, you'd never heard of Enid Blyton? It's not often I get the drop on any of you guys.
I love the BBC Poirot and Marple adaptations because they're like CSI or Law and Order, where actors you know constantly turn up.
Oh, god, Enid Blyton wrote everything. EVERYTHING. I don't think there was a more prolific kids and YA author that I was into as a kid. Every fucking series of hers, except the Noddy ones, because they were too young. But The Faraway Tree? Famous Five? Secret Seven? Her boarding school series? Stuff of my childhood.
I have heard of Maigret, but I didn't know who the author was.